Combining Epidemiologic and Biostatistical Tools to Enhance Variable Selection in HIV Cohort Analyses
Rentsch C, Bebu I, Guest JL, Rimland D, Agan BK, Marconi V. Combining Epidemiologic and Biostatistical Tools to Enhance Variable Selection in HIV Cohort Analyses. PLOS ONE 2014, 9: e87352. PMID: 24489902, PMCID: PMC3906149, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087352.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsVariable selectionVariable selection approachSignificance testsParsimonious modelInformation theoryBayesian argumentInformation criterionPosterior probabilityBiostatistical proceduresAveraging modelBiostatistical toolsThird methodSelection procedureBest fitSelection approachModelSurvival modelsDifferent methodsTheoryApproachStepwise selection procedureRegression modelsProbabilityStatistical PackageMultivariate regression model